Archive for May, 2011

Yes !! That is weird but true that latest Ubuntu 11.04 aka Natty Narwhal will not get installed if you’ve created live CD on your favorite U3 drive. I learned it hard way that latest of Ubuntu simply will fail to get install itself if you are using U3 usb drive and will generate some strange error at installation time, something like

Today, I was playing with my new install of Linux. I installed Mono in it… (for those who don’t know what is MONO, is a cross platform IDE that can be used to develop .NET application in any environment) .. With my past encounters with Mono, I know that it is sort of complicated to make Mono work properly and you need to configure it specifically to work without glitch 🙂 … but with this newer Ubuntu 11.04, the process was way too simple.

During installation from "Ubuntu Software Center" I can select which add-on I want to install with Mono and everything will be configured automatically !! So only user intervention is just to select which add-on they want. Once you are done with installation you can fire up the application and start coding right away. Well, it is other case if you are way too much habituated with drag ‘n drop Visual Studio environment then you will find it a bit difficult to work with Mono since it doesn’t have VS like rich UI. But I say, it is way better then what you can get in Linux.

I’ve been user of Linux from past few years. I got interested in Linux perticularly in Ubuntu when I took a class for Linux in my school. Since then, I have Linux as my second OS in my dual boot Laptop. I think that there are so many things that Linux can do effciently but Windows cant do it well. But major drawback of Linux is, if you are transited from Windows environment, you are kind of habituated for point and click tools, that makes your life hard in Linux because many time you are required to run some command or some script or something like that. Also since most of the tools are open source, some tools are not so polished and hard to use. Or sometimes I just cant use Linux because of my work, but I dont have that complain anymore because I can work using MONO 😀 …

Till now, I’ve been using Window Live Writer, which is no doubt really great blogging tool. But if I am working on Linux then I have to reboot into windows just because I wanted to blog on something. But today I am testing this new blogging tool in KDE. It is called "Blogilo". It has almost same feature as WLR, and I am hoping that I will use this tool in future.

If you are in current news, then you might already know that LastPass one of the major password manager “felt” that it was somehow breached and some of user data was stolen in hashed form which will not be of any use to that hacker. But for me this is the indication that no matter how secure your system is there is no better way to store password then keep it in your mind … Anyways, I got this email from LastPass yesterday “suggesting” that I should change my master password. Luckily, I don’t have any important passwords stored there because I don’t trust these services at first place …

Just now due to my “experiments” OS and other stuff, I had to restore system image of my OS installation drive (it is more easy to restore image then formatting drives and reinstalling everything ). But unfortunately the image I took was a bit newer (or say more older) so it had only essential software installed on it. So I was installing Visual Studio 2010 all again, mean while I also got SP1 for VS 2010 so I updated VS 2010 with SP1 as well.

As my work requires me to work with Silverlight, I was also required to install Silverlight Tools to work with. But with surprise when I tried to download and install Silverlight tools from MSDN, I got really weird error message.

Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web Developer Express 2010 or Visual Phone Developer Express 2010 that matches the language version of Silverlight Tools 4 must be installed before installation of Silverlight Tools can continue.

This is really really weird issue for firefox user. If you have been using firefox, one feature that you might be missing badly in new firefox is “save tabs” option while closing firefox if you have opened multiple tabs. Sometimes you’ve added some add-in which requires you to restart firefox but you also don’t want to reopen existing tabs at that time this feature comes really handy. But for some strange reasons Mozilla guys thought that this feature is not so important so they have disabled this feature by default !!! And it is really difficult for person like me who is using Windows which every now and then installs new update and asks for restart of whole machine.